since this is a first for me please allow me to introduce myself.
My name is Levente, and i'm currently a student at the University of Szeged in Hungary working for my BSC diploma.
TL;DR;
Can i GPU compute an AI workload in Vulkan?
Hello.
My diploma work will be about AI. More specifically i want to to be the genetic algorithm. With that said, i'm very much a beginner in AI. (and everything at the bsc level obviously.)
So when i took the course for my thesis (if that's the right word) i didn't really have any specific idea, so the prof/lecturer pitched me one. I like but there's a "slight" problem with it for me.
He said, that'd be very good, if we could replicate the data found here:
https://blog.openai.com/evolution-strategies/
I really like the idea of it but there's a massive hardware limitation for me. I can't just throw hundreds but even 32 cores and days of compute time at the problem. I'm an avid gamer and my rig is a slouch by no means, but obviously it's not a server farm. It is a dilemma for me and i was sitting on for a while and came up with something tho I've no idea if it even can be done, worth the time, and effort.
My solution to this would be to try to GPU compute it on the VULKAN API. My gpu is a good compute card as far as i know and if this kind of workload could be parallelized on it i'd be amazing. Note that their original code was written in python. What i know about it is that's it's easy to code, but terribly slow. I was thinking about rewritting it in C++ and try to GPU compute the workload.
My question would be that is it an option to do so, or do i need to think about an other topic.
Also if yes, any kind of material that helps me learn vulkan would be appreciated.
P.S.:
I've posted this also on redit but got no "good enough" answer so i came here, maybe you guyz could. Well also red team community forum but after some clicking on the forums realised that this is a better place probably
My computer:
Ryzen R7 1700x
Vega64 (strix)
16gigs of ram.
